£10m GP new deal fund will target practices with poor CQC ratings

By Neil Roberts on the
26 June 2015

A £10m fund for struggling practices announced last week by health secretary Jeremy Hunt will be used to support surgeries with quality concerns and identified by the CQC as needing improvement, GPonline has learned.

Ratings: practices found to be struggling by CQC could receive share of £10m

GPonline has been told the funding will be used to support practices identified by CQC as having quality concerns and in need of improvement.

The programme, to be developed by NHS England and NHS Clinical Commissioners, will ‘take learning from’ an existing pilot scheme to support practices in special measures currently being delivered by the RCGP.

Primary care minister Alistair Burt, in response to a parliamentary question, also revealed that the funding will be 'drawn from this year’s Primary Care Infrastructure Fund, a £1bn investment over four years, announced as part of the 2014 autumn statement'.